The telephone fell to the counter

She heard but she couldn't believe

What kina man would hang on that long?

What kind of love that must be

Abby's cellphone slipped from her grip and fell to the floor breaking into pieces and scattering across the retro carpeted floor. She stood there shocked for a good seven minutes. She was completely zoned out until she felt a pull on her arm. She looked over to see her mother looking at her with a concerned expression.

"He said he loved me," Abby said and signed simply and moved toward the couch sitting down to get off her now week legs. He couldn't have meant her how would he she had been gone for ten months he had to have moved on by now, didn't he. She felt a tear roll down her cheek.

Her Timmy would not have move on and she knew that. He was pig headed and driven, heck at times he was worse than Gibbs when it came to her and that is saying something. She pulled her right leg on to the couch and wrapped her arms around her thigh then rested her head on her knee.

"He still loves me" She said silently, it was hard to believe but feasible for one reason and one reason only. She still loved him more than anything in the world and much stronger than puppy's or rainbows. She decided she would call him back as soon as she wouldn't cry at the mere sound of his tone.

She waited three days

and then she tried again.

She didn't know what she'd say

But she heard three rings and then.

Tim listened to the message for the umpteenth time that day. He knew somehow that Abby had called him and knew she heard the message. He wondered if he should try to call her back and explain she was Austin and it wasn't some other woman. Sure he went on a fixed date but never did he ever forget about Abby, His Abby. The message was short all that was herd was a sniffle then a thud before the line went dead. It was left three days ago.

"McGooo," Came the calling voice of DiNozzo as he entered the younger agents' house. McGee turned to see him dressed for the Nationals baseball game he had announced he was taking him to two days prior. He completely forgot and got lost in her message.

"The game," He said with a sigh, he had yet to change from his suit.

"You forgot McGenius" Tony said simply.

"I did not, Just give me a minute Tony." He said ripping off toward his room. The phone began to ring and DiNozzo pressed end letting voice mail take it then hustling McGee out the door.

Abby had finally made up her mind and dialed the number for the twelfth time that hour as she walked aimlessly around terminal B31 in Memphis international airport she didn't have that much time left and around the before the first ring she heard the attendant say

"Now Boarding section 3 for Delta Airlines flight 942 non-stop service to Ronald Regan Washington International Airport." She moved away from the crowd and heard yet another of McGee's famous messages.

"If its Friday night I'm at the ball game

And first thing Saturday if it don't rain

I'm headed out to the lake and I'll be gone

All weekend long.

But I'll call you back when I get home on Sunday afternoon

And P.S If this is Austin I still love you."

And so she left her number

But not another word.

Abby took a deep breath and then recited her telephone number to the machine before hanging up the phone and turning it off. She now had a plan of attack and knew how she was going to surprise McGee. She walked onto the plane turning her phone off McGee would take her saying the number as an okay to call her, he probably already knew she had the first time. Landing she came face to face with an old friend, this particular old friend almost ran over to her and she returned the jester.

"Abbs oh my gosh I have missed you so much. Next time I am not letting you run back home when things get hard." Rachel her best friend in the world, excluding her family at NCIS, said bear hugging her. Rachel was her best friend in collage along with being her roommate.

"I missed you to Rachie," She said simply.

"But not as much as your geek I know."

"Sorry Rachie nothing takes the place of my geek, you should know." She said simply while Rachel's husband Frank came up and hugged Abby as well. Frank also went to collage with the girls and married Rachel soon after graduation.

"You right nothing takes the place of a geek.

"You do know its very low blow to ones self a esteem to be continually called a geek by your wife and her best friend right." He said.

"It would be if you had any self esteem." Abby laughed.

"Well lets go get your bag and we will all ketch up." Frank said leading his wife and her friend to baggage claim.

Then she waited by the phone

On Sunday evening

And this is what he heard.

Groggily Timothy McGee slumped into his house after his camping trip. He knew Sarah loved there lake trips witch is why he continually attended. He turned his phone on and saw he missed a message. He called his voice mail to answer it and sat up strait on the couch in shock at the voice he heard he hung up the phone emeditly and dialed her number.

She had called him maybe this was his chance. The phone only rang once before he heard her pick it up.

"Its Him," Abby said looking at her friends who sat across from her In the coffee shop across from McGee's apartment.

"What are you still siting her for? Go get your geek girl." Rachie almost screamed and Abby looked over to Frank who nodded.

"Its now or never." He said simply

"Thank you guys so much for everything." She said standing up and walking out of the shop two coffee's in hand. She tucked away her phone holding it in between her shoulder and ear. She stopped in front of his door putting the coffee's down on the table. She then answered with a deep breath and grabbed the note from her pocket reading it to McGee so she wouldn't forget.

'If your calling about my heart its still yours'

She said her voice almost breaking and tears beginning to run down her cheeks.

'I should have listened to it a little more

And it wouldn't have taken me so long

To know where I belong.'

She reached out and rang his door bell hearing him come up to answer it.

'And by the way boy this is no machine you're talking to.'

She continued to read the now illegible letter seeing as the ink ran after her tears hit it. McGee answered the door but didn't move to hug her. He stopped himself thinking maybe this was a dream.

'Can't you tell this is Austin,

And I still love you'

She said crinkling up the note and wraping her arms around him as tight as she could he returned the jester before lifting her face up and kissing her again and again.

"Abby," He whispered into her neck.

"Yeah Timmy,"

"Just incase there is any confusion I love you." He said simply.

"I know, and I love you two." She said before McGee picked her up and carried her into his house shuting the door behind him. The note fell to the counter and despite all of the messed up ink four words where visible.

'I still love you'